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Q&A with Vint Cerf, who has been working on building an internet for space, using disruption/delay-tolerant networking (DTN) protocol, an alternative to TCP/IP (Susan D’Agostino/Quanta Magazine)
on October 25, 2020 at 12:10 pm
Susan D’Agostino / Quanta Magazine:Q&A with Vint Cerf, who has been working on building an internet for space, using disruption/delay-tolerant networking (DTN) protocol, an alternative to TCP/IP — Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he’s still working to connect people around the world — and off it.
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Weibo users describe how political discussions on the platform have become even more muted amid pervasive censorship, as some resort to using burner accounts (Shen Lu/Rest of World)
on October 25, 2020 at 9:05 am
Shen Lu / Rest of World:Weibo users describe how political discussions on the platform have become even more muted amid pervasive censorship, as some resort to using burner accounts — Thousands of Weibo accounts have been deleted as China’s government cracks down on free speech.
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Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir’s trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel’s relationship with Trump (Michael Steinberger/New York Times)
on October 25, 2020 at 6:00 am
Michael Steinberger / New York Times:Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir’s trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel’s relationship with Trump — The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends.
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Zest AI raises $15M for its AI-powered tech that it claims can help financial institutions reduce bias in loan portfolios, bringing its total VC funding to $87M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
on October 25, 2020 at 5:15 am
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Zest AI raises $15M for its AI-powered tech that it claims can help financial institutions reduce bias in loan portfolios, bringing its total VC funding to $87M — Zest AI, a company developing AI-powered loan decisioning products, today closed a $15 million funding round led by Insight Partners.
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FinLocker, whose software helps consumers expedite the mortgage approval process, raises $19.8M Series A and announces a commercial agreement with TransUnion (David Nicklaus/St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
on October 25, 2020 at 4:50 am
David Nicklaus / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:FinLocker, whose software helps consumers expedite the mortgage approval process, raises $19.8M Series A and announces a commercial agreement with TransUnion — FinLocker, a Clayton-based financial technology company, has raised $19.8 million in venture capital and reached a commercial agreement with a major credit bureau.
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